ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10870, 21 January 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

On Saturday evening oji old age pensioner named Jeremiah Gunseu, a well-known resident of the Rangiora district, was taken ill at Mr John Moody's iiousp. Waverley, and died before a doctor could ba summoned. The deceased, who was a very old resident of the district, was a, native of Cumberland, England. He was in the early days a very energetic and hardworking settler. He was a widower., and about eighty years of age. Tht bod? was removed to the Iv.iiapoi morgue, and an inquest was held by Mr Feldwiek. J.P., Mr A. 11. Hunt being foreman of xh'j jury. Dr. Parsons, who had made the p«'.<t mortem examination, attributed death to failure of the heart, caused probably by severe exertion too soon after a meal. Tae verdict was death from natural causes. A boy uamed Francis I'owetl, thirteen and a half years of age. son of Mr Frank Powell, of yalt'A"ater Creek, was killed at Sefton on Saturday night. Another boy had lifted him on to a horse, and then struck the aninvjl with a stick. The horse reared tip and /ell over with the boy underneath. An inquest will be held.

..V young man named George' Athea, residing at Worcester street, Linwood, who v/as working on the ballast train afc PapaTiui railway station, fell of? a truck on Friday with one leg across the rail just as the train vas moving. His shin bone was broken, and two severe - gashes intticttd. His collar bone was also broken. But for the presence of mind of his fellow-workers, who, by their united efforts stopped the truck, the accident would have resulted much more seriously. The injured man was attended to at the lVuaruii Medical Home, and then removed to his own residence, and is reported to be doing well. The youth named Holliiway, admitted to the G'hristchurcn Hospital en Friday, having severely burnt his foot with some boiling metal at a local fouudry, is doing reiy well. (PRES3 ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAMS.) NELSON, January 19. A 3-oung man named Richard Ward waa seriously injured yesterday afternoon by a fall of earth, at a quarry at which he waa working. His injuries consist of severe »• cuts and bruises and a dislocated hip. Nearly twenty tons fell, and two other men working with Wavd had a narrow escape. DUNEDIN, January 20. William Graham, eight years old, was killed by a traiu at Green Islanii on Saturday night. GLSBORNE, January 19. Two traps on the Riverside road, a narrow road along the Waimato river bank, were overturned, through.the horses tukiug fright, and rolled over the steep embankment. All the occupants were much shaken, and some badly cut. One young lady, Miss Wyllie, aa she rolled over and over down the embankment, pluckily kept a child clusped in her arms and saved it from injury.